Posted on 06/25/2020 10:36:14 AM PDT by knighthawk
Rhode Island is dropping the latter part of its official name on state documents, per an executive order signed by Gov. Gina Raimondo (D).
The state, formally known as the “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” will be removing “and Providence Plantations” due to its connection to the history of slavery, officials say.
Raimondo signed an executive order on Monday, citing ongoing public discussion of the word “plantations” in Rhode Island’s official name, which was established in 1790.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Cecil Rhodes and slavery are old and dear friends—be cheaper if they got rid of the Rhodes as well all at one time....
This lefty site walks you though the connection:
Good gosh. You can change / delete all you want. It’ll never. Timean it didn’t happen... Sheesh
Change the name does not change the history only makes progressives feel good.
Sorry for the typeo’s...you know what I mean.
I posted yesterday:
Rhode Island's Ivy League Brown University's namesake actually commissioned a slave ship where a total of 109 captured slaves died!From the Brown University Slavery and Justice: report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice:
Like other members of their class, the Browns were slaveowners. There are records of Captain James Brown, the brothers’ father, purchasing slaves as early as 1728, and he left four slaves in his estate upon his death in 1739. By the early 1770s, the brothers owned at least fourteen slaves, several of them in common. Moses, who in 1773 became the first of the brothers to renounce slaveholding, seems to have held the largest number, owning six slaves outright, as well as a quarter interest in several others....
In 1759, the family returned to the African trade, when Obadiah, Nicholas, and John, along with a handful of smaller investors, dispatched a rumladen schooner, the Wheel of Fortune, to Africa. With war raging between Britain and France, it was a risky venture and it ended in failure. The ship arrived safely on the African coast, but it was subsequently captured by a French privateer. While Obadiah had taken the precaution of insuring the voyage, the loss of the ship still represented a substantial financial setback for the family. For the enslaved Africans on board, the capture of the ship likely made no difference, as they would simply have been carried to the French West Indies and sold there.
With the restoration of peace in 1763, the Browns decided to return to the African trade. (Obadiah had died the year before, leaving the family business in the hands of the four brothers, trading under the name Nicholas Brown and Company.) The North American economy was in the doldrums, and the brothers needed capital to buy supplies for their candle works, as well as for their newest venture, an iron furnace. With slave labor in high demand throughout the Americas, an African voyage promised a quick and substantial profit. The brothers initially planned a joint venture with Carter Braxton, a Virginia merchant and later signer of the Declaration of Independence, but in the end they elected to proceed by themselves. The result was the voyage of the Sally.
The Slave Ship Sally, 1764-65
The Sally sailed from Providence in 1764, the year of Brown’s founding. The ship carried the standard African cargo, including spermaceti candles, tobacco, onions, and 17,274 gallons of New England rum. It also carried an assortment of chains, shackles, swivel guns, and small arms to control the human cargo to come. In their letter of instructions, the Brown brothers ordered the ship’s master, Esek Hopkins, to make his passage to the Windward Coast of Africa, to exchange his goods for slaves, and to sell those slaves to best advantage in the West Indies. They also asked him to bring “four likely young slaves,” boys of fifteen years or younger, back to Providence for the family’s own use.
The voyage was a disaster in every conceivable sense. Many other merchants had the same idea as the Browns, and Hopkins found the West African coast crowded with slavers, including more than two-dozen ships from Rhode Island. The market for rum was glutted and captives were scarce and expensive. Hopkins eventually acquired a cargo of 196 Africans, but it took him more than nine months to do so, an exceptionally long time for a slave ship to remain on the African coast, especially for those confined below decks. By the time the Sally set sail for the West Indies, nineteen Africans had already died, including several children and one woman who “hanged her Self between Decks.” A twentieth captive, also a woman, was left for dead on the day the ship sailed.
The toll continued to mount on the return journey. Four more Africans – one woman and three children – died in the first week at sea. On the eighth day out, the captives rose in rebellion, a fact noted in a terse entry in the ship’s account book: “Slaves Rose on us was obliged fire on them and Destroyed Eight and Several more wounded badly 1 Thye and ones Ribs broke.” In the weeks that followed, death was an almost daily occurrence; according to Hopkins, the captives became “so Despireted” after the failed insurrection “that Some Drowned themselves Some Starved and others Sickened & Dyed.” In all, sixty-eight Africans perished during the crossing, each loss carefully recorded in the account book. Another twenty Africans died in the days after the ship reached the West Indies, bringing the total death toll to 108. (A 109th captive, one of the four “likely lads” requested by the Brown brothers, died en route to Providence.) The survivors, auctioned in Antigua, were so sickly and emaciated that they commanded prices as low as £5 apiece, scarcely one-tenth of the prevailing price for a “prime” slave. The poor returns on the voyage prompted an apologetic letter from the merchant who handled some of the sales. “I am truly Sorry for the Bad Voyage you [had],” he wrote. “[H]ad the negroes been young + Healthy I should have been able to sell them pretty well. I make no doubt if you was to try this market again with Good Slaves I Should be able to give you Satisfaction.”
-PJ
Like Israel to Palestine and finally back to Israel.
Plantation: “an area in which trees have been planted, especially for commercial purposes.”
Considering that slavery was abolished in Rhode Island 6 years before they became the “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” this is imbecilic.
Just rename it “#13” and be done with it.
It really should have been “Williams” in the first place.
The name was to thank God.
now they are nothing but a copy of the Isle of Rhodes
and not even an island at all.
“typeo’s”
You’d better apologize for your butchered apology.
“Rhode Island Dropping Part of Its Official Name from State Documents..”
Crap Island?
Yeah...I’m backin’ up today. :^/
Another Rat publicly declaring themselves to be ignorant of history.
That’s OK the public seems to be too!
“due to its connections with the history of slavery”
The word “plantation” meant “settlement” when named. It has nothing to do with the history of slavery. Imbeciles!
Cecil John Rhodes was born in Bishop’s Stortford, England on 5 July 1853, and had nothing to do with the American state. However he did found the African colony/country of Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe.
Rhode Island colony was settled/founded in 1636 by Puritan minister, theologian, and author Roger Williams with the settling of Providence in 1636. He had broken off from the original Puritans/Pilgrims that settled at Plymouth Bay in 1620.
At least the rabble rouzers cannot touch the COLOSSUS of RHODES as it was toppled thousands of years ago by an earthquake.(We can kiss the movie good by).
But the name Rhodes as an Island is still there. Enough to make a faintheart swoon. Too much to remind them of Rhode Island.
It’s insanity, but it kinda gets lost in the rising sea of insane insanity that is currently engulfing the USA.
So, she has known what the name of the state was ever since she went to school, and it just now dawned on her to erase the name?
I thought it interesting today, the extremely TINY SLIVER of blacks who give a damn about the name changes ...
How about “the land of milk and toast”
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